Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-16
4 SAMPLE EVICTION.
How the Irish Are Treated In .Dsar Old
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Philade phia News
James G3rvey, whose mouse the euer-
genCy men were assaultlpg when I errEe!,
said q Boston Globe correspondent -
Coolgrsny, Ireland, is q well 10 do farmer
who held tfty-Jwo acres Of land from
Mr.. Brooks for which he was charged 8
rental Of 49,, is. 81, though the yalus-
ton amounts TO lut go los. His home
was s large stone cottage surrounded by
| three or four COw-hO houses and other ont
| buildings. It was well fortified The
| door and every window were barred snd
stoned up thorough y. The emergency
men broke down the door with their bars
and were confronted by cart wheels and
bodies chained together in such g
| wsy ss to make further progress imP0ss.
| Die.
| II WAS while emergency mel were
standing here thai Miss Alice G4rvey, the
eighteen year-old daughter OF the owner,
threw not pot OF stiragJut Oh the head
OF an emergency man, / wss standing
not rod away at the time heard MIN
yell and swear and turned in time 10
catch glimpse Of young girl standing
back OF the fertilization smiling. a con
stable raised his revolver as If TO fire, but
Was sharply re5uked by Captain SIGCke.
''You'd be coward snd shoot g girl
would your" asked he. "Shsme on you.
Let them throw the stIra5out. This Is al
they can do
The head and face OF the emergency
man were badly burned by tde not mix
ture, so he had 10 be taken sway under
guard. In the same wagon were taken
two young boys hsndCufed together.
They were arrested on chsrges of setting
tire to the hedges.
Still the Garyey house did not field
Two or three old women went around
among the groups of people who were
seated on the grass and sold them C-aCh-
= ers, ginger ale and soda water, while the
emergency men worked aTsv with bars
and picks and sledges. By this time the
hedges were al s3lsze and the smoke
arose and covered ell Ike Z canopy. ]
. was faint and sick from the heat AMI
, smoke. As many more were ia the same
condition | COUnd fad no fault, so bore
my discomhtures ss best could
An hour passed, snd, though the walls
of Garyey's cottage were battered and
! broken and the door mashed 20 frag
ments, no one had got inside Garyey
and his tive daughters could be hesri
; uttering their cry OF defiance, which was
+ answered by the people outside the mil
, itsry Gordon. The police and soldiers
stood with folded arms, saying nothing.
They saw the work 90 on. but took no
part.
Bat the emergency men were geuiug
weary Their faces were red, their hands
blistered, and some had felt the boiling
water which had been hurled Ct them by
the besieged tenants. They must change
) their tactics.
The two big staiTCases which had tipped
; me out of the trap in the early part Of the
day were unIOaded and raised 10 the roof
. On these scaling ladders the servants Of
the landlords mounted the thatch and
. broke hole into the house. l could not
see what was transacted inside. I he2rd
= the sharp outCry of female voices and the
rough oaths Of men. Then a cart-wheeI
; came out through the hole in the roof and
fell into the yard. This was followed 1y
the Shafts, the body, the axle and other
parts of farm cart. Trunks of trees,
chains, settle beds and other articles
; leaDed sloft and lighted in the yard in
j broken fragments. Thus the obstruc-
S tons were cleared from the door, and
z the emergency men proceeded to eYict
s the people. Two girls were dragged out
e screaming and scratching. They made 2
g good fight, but the men were too strong
e There was the sound OF a biz s.rugg e
: going on inside.
/ Three emergency men appeared a. the
1T door, and among them was GarveY HIS
e face was red, his muscles knotted: DU,
he did not struggle. The fight was over
He simply braCed his feet and allowed
them to drag him Three feet ontslde
the door ne was caught up by the rne1
/, and forCiblY thrown among the rubbish
" lie fell on his back, his head striking on
N a cart-tire. l saw the blood squirt up
n staining his gray hair and painting ri.
face with crimson. He gave his enemies
~ en- ugly glance, his fists closed, and ne
- attempted to rise. Then g pallor spread
Ia over mis- face, his eyes closed, and he fell
" back limp and lIfeless. He had fainted
= away.
" Two more girls were pnlled out between
N two men, and each dropped ike baskets
81 of dirt. Mary Garvey, the eldest child
alone remained. Five men went back foI
her. They were met by pan Of Goals
Mary WAS evidently prepared TO fight i
out on that line if it took all summer
.. But the men were too many for her
They brought 1er out as they would
calf or pig, carrying her face upward, one
@, HSh Aa'4DS uO4u VI esCH 1901 ana LNC
= more holding her 0y the hands sDd II
- other held hsr head for fear she would
/, bite them. In tlis way was the last oc-
"a cupant evicted. They took her il 70 tnC
r yard, AMI swinging her to and fro
sr counted cone, two three" ard threw
q ner on the top of her father TneY look.
ed 81 her. gTinned and went back tC pu
le out the fire and finish their work Mar
o. did not Stir. She lay there with hel
le plump, white arm thrown over her blue
Dc eyes. while her yellow hsir mopped "
: the blood Of her sgcd parent. She hsC
"a been stunned by her fall. The fouI
y younger girls now came up and revived
ie their father and sister and TOOK them GU
~ OF the way of the beds snd tables am
Dc crockery taat we're noHfalling in shower
te around them. The eviction Tss ended
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